Example sentences of "only [verb] a [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
| 2 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Some only last a few minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 5 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 6 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 7 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 8 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 9 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 10 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 11 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 12 | It would only take a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | It will only take a few minutes , certainly . |
| 14 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
| 15 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 16 | They dive into the mist and vanish , only to reappear a few minutes later , some considerable distance away . |
| 17 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 18 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |
| 19 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |